SASE: State of the Industry Report

2023 May

Summary:

How standards-based SASE certification addresses the pressing need for validated cyber defense and application performance.

Secure Access Service Edge—Validating Cyber Defense in an Era of Unprecedented Threats

The risk of major cyberattacks has never been greater. Organizations are responding by making cybersecurity a top priority for digital technology investment.

Increased usage of cloud services, the rise of remote and hybrid work, and the pressing need to apply Zero Trust (ZT) principles are fueling explosive demand for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) technologies and services, which solve the problem of protecting users, devices, and applications at scale regardless of their location. SASE combines network connectivity (SD-WAN) and mostly cloud-based security functions (ZT and Security Service Edge) with subscriber policies to provide a high level of application performance with a tightly integrated set of security capabilities.

For many enterprises, their digital transformation journey with prioritized cybersecurity will involve a transition from SD-WAN to SASE and ultimately to secure NaaS solutions with integrated SASE that will be delivered across a standards-based automated ecosystem.

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